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comment by Kafke
Kafke  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Would people be up for some friendly Debates on the #Debate tag?

By making the goal "convince the other side" that means there is a winner and loser. Namely, the winner is the convincer, and the loser is the convinced.

I have no problem switching my "side" when approaching topics, but others are less likely to do so. That's why I think reframing it to be a "discussion" would be better. It doesn't create an "us vs them" mentality, and instead it creates an "us vs the topic" mentality. This allows the community to work as a group to tackle a topic, rather than work against each other.

I suppose the most important thing would be to keep it civil. It can be very easy to split a community.